Many special tunings, I
used a special tuning for that; the low string down to B, then A, D, G, A,
and D. It's like a modal tuning, a sitar tuning, in fact.
Open C (C-G-C-G-C-E) ("Friends," "That's the Way"),
B-A-D-G-A-D ("Black Mountain Side"), other tunings of Page's that
"are my own that I've worked out, so I'd rather keep those to
myself...but they're never open tunings."

Stevie
Ray Vaughn

59
Strat, with left handed tremelo, ultra tall frets, Tune to Eb,

VERY heavy gauge GHS
strings (0.013 to 0.060)

Fender Medium plectrums

High

Ibanez
Tube Screamers for overdrive, a Vox Crybaby for wah, a Fender Viratone, a
Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face, and a Tycobrahe Octavia

Eddie
Van Halen

Self made custom built,
using Strat Body & Gibson PAF pickups rewound to own spec. Known for
Charvel and EVH models -l

At this time EVH used
various strat style bodies, with generally maple strat necks, retrofitted
with Seymour Duncan or Gibson PAF humbuckers, as well as homemade pickups,
hand-rewound and wax potted. Tone control not wired in. Became known for use
of Charvel parts (initially without company support) - pickups directly
screwed to guitar body to increase sustain. Also became know for early
adoption of the Floyd Rose tremolo system.

Eddie
Van Halen - mid 80's

Commenced working with
Kramer , developing several instruments, essentially carrying the ideas
developed above forward - involved with Kramer from 84 - 90

Custom built Jackson Flying
V, The instruments have long, fairly small bodies that are easy to get
around. They have a neck-through-the-body solid maple construction, 22 frets,
a 25 1/2" scale, and Seymour Duncan pickups: a Jazz model in the neck position
and a Distortion. They have binding on the neck and around the head, and a
special pearl inlay that Randy came up with. The white one had one of
Charvel's standard tremolo units on it.Small frets.

Binson Echorec tape delay
(like Barrett, he used this device from his first days with the band), a
Dallas-Arbiter Fuzzface fuzz box, Uni-Vibe pedal, Vox wah-wah pedal, a
DeArmond volume pedal, and Leslie and Yamaha RA-200 rotating speaker
cabinets. The latter were routed through the output sections of Hiwatt heads
and then to WEM 4x12 cabinets. In 1972, his effects boxes were mounted in a
custom cabinet, and his array of processors grew to include a second Binson
Echorec and a second Fuzzface, an MXR Phase 90, a Crybaby wah-wah, an
Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress flanger, Big Muff fuzz, an Orange treble
and bass booster, and a custom-built tone pedal.

Peter
Green

His most famous Les Pauls
(right - now owned by Gary Moore) neck pickup had been wired so that the when
the selector switch is in the middle position the pickups are out of phase
(the neck pickup is also turned round so the pole pieces are towards the bridge
instead of the neck) For his current band - The Splinter Group - he
uses
• Gretsch Roc Jet
• Gibson Howard Roberts
• Fender Telecaster - with pizo pickup
• Fender Stratocaster

Using a classic late 50s
Les Paul with Bigsby, 56 Fender Tweed Deluxe and host of Boss Pedals from the
late 70s he has created the ultimate grunge sound 25 yrs before it was hip

Mick
Ronson

Mick
Ronson's trademark sound came from his sanded '68 Gibson Les Paul guitar
(later donated to the Hard Rock cafe in New York), a Marshall Major 200 watt
amp (nicknamed "The Pig") plus an angled 4x12" Marshall cab
and the use of a Cry-Baby wah-wah. Generally he set his amp's tone pots
to maximum and then set the pedal to act as a mid range boosting tone
control. However, he used it as a straight wah-wah on songs such as
"Moonage Daydream".

Argentine strings, a rather light, special
composition string - silver-plated copper over a steel core - made in France.
They are also often played with rather high action, for clearer notes and
better vibrato

Hank
Marvin

Possibly best known for 59
'pink' Stratocaster also used Burns Marvin signature guitar fora period in
the 1960's

Roy
Buchanan

53 Fender Telecaster

Flatpick plus 2 fingers

Johnny
Winter

Gibson Firebird, no
tremelo, non-standard tailpiece, large frets, high action

10-46 gauge GHS strings on
the cloud, symbol and Anastasia models and 11-50 gauge GHS strings on the
Hohner. He has them re-strung and covered in finger-ease before every
performance.

Prince

Fender Strat, with bridge
humbucker & Floyd Rose tremelo

Chuck
Berry

Chuck Berry has been a
Gibson man above all. An early favorite was the Les Paul Custom, with two
P-90 pickups. Berry alternated it with a hollow-body Super 400 with P-90s,
and an ES-150T, a thinline hollow-body guitar with two humbuckers. Later, he
switched to the ES-355, semi-hollow with two humbuckers. Latterly has also
used ES-335.

Scotty
Moore

Gibson ES-295,Gibson Super 400

Cliff
Gallup

Gretsch Duo Jet, with fixed Bigsby arm

Flat wound, heavy

Eddie
Cochrane

Gretsch G-brand
model 6120.

Muddy
Waters

After moving to Chicago,
Muddy first got a “no-name” electric hollowbody, but by the time he started
recording he owned a Gretsch with a DeArmond pickup. Later, Muddy could be
seen playing a Les Paul Gold Top with P-90 pickups and, finally, his
trademark instrument, the ’57 Telecaster, with oversized neck and high
bridge.

He tuned to standard pitch
for normal playing and to open G tuning for slide, and he used heavy strings
(.012 or .013 for the high E) and high action.

Muddy used a plastic thumb
pick to play the low E, and bare fingers to play the melody.

Fender Super Reverb with four
10-inch speakers.

Kurt
Cobain

65 Fender Jaguar
retrofitted with Tunomatic bridge, Dimarzio super distortion in bridge, PAF
neck pickups.Also a couple of Fender
Mustangs with Seymour Duncan JBs.Used
Strats live to avoid damage to these 3 guitars.Worked with Fender to create the Jag-Stang
; combines body type of Mustang & Jaguar, Fender Texas Special single
coil in the neck position and a DiMarzio H-3 humbucker in the bridge
position, short scale neck.

Heavy

Roland EF-1 distortion

Marc
Bolan

Most noted for a late 50's
Les Paul, refinisheded in a dark orange, later fitted with a new neck and
finally stolen in 1977.Also had 2
white rosewood neck strats.Also had
several 70s Les Pauls, A Gibson Flying V and a Zemaitis Les Paul, now owned
by Paul McCartney.

Used stamdard pitch but
often used capo

sometimes dispensed with a
pick and played with his first finger, using the nail as a substitute pick

Pair
of Fender Twins, in stereo. Though his UK models are vintage, 50 cycle Twins,
he picked up a pair of reissues stateside

Tampa
Red

1928 National Style 4

Jennifer
Batten

Washburn Maverick, Roland GK-2A guitar-synth pickups

10s

Albert
Collins

Blond 1966 Fender
Telecaster, with Gibson Humbucker in the neck position and stock tele single
coil in the bridge position

10's - uses E minor tuning,
E G E G B E and capo to change key

Fingerpicking

George
Benson

Used a Guild X-500
archtopin his early career , now
known for IbanezGeorge Benson series

Flatwound , very heavy,13,17,26,38,48,58

Medium Pick

Mike
Stern

Mike's guitar features a
custom made Tele-style body by Michael Aronson with an original '50s Fender
Broadcaster neck. Pickups are a Seymour Duncan P.A.F.-style humbucker in the
neck position and a Bill Lawrence single coil in the bridge.This guitar replaced an original '50s
Tele which originally belonged to bluesman Roy Buchanan and was sold to Mike
by the late Danny Gatton in 1975. It was stolen from Mike in an armed street
robbery in Roxbury, MA Yamaha Signature, Also -Gatton1965 Gibson Telecaster. It's a 1965 Gibson Melody Maker that was custom chopped by
Gatton with a Tele-treble pickup and a Danny Gatton homemade Charlie
Christian Rhythm pickup.1972 Gibson
Les Paul Recording."

Strings are .011-.038
nicklewounds.

Freddie
Green

In
the 1930's played Epiphone Emperor, but most famously associated with
Stromberg Master 400.When the
Stromberg went out of production and became too valuable for touring switched
to Gretsch Eldorado

Fender Stratocaster -
actually worked with Leo Fender on many aspects of Strat development.Plays extremely heavy strings, reverse
strung from high to low, in the same way as Albert King.Now has reverse headstock signature series
strat.

.018s, .038s, .048s, .039s,
.049s, .060s,

Tony
Iommi

Best known for Gibson 24
fret SG.Due to finger injury uses
ultra low frets, ultra light strings and often detunes.At one stage owned British guitar makers
John Diggins and John Birch.

.008's

Michael
Schenker

Number 1 - White and Black 1975 Flying V equipped with a Seymour
Duncan (probably a Jeff Beck) PU in the lead position.The original pickguard has been replaced
with a '67 reissue type , Neck joint has been reglued , No PU surroundings ,
Original Kluson tuners have been replaced by Schallers ,Bares a small
"1" on the left of the neck joint Number 2 -
Also a 1979 block inlay Flying V 1979 block inlayNumber 3 -Flying V
Original painte pickguard & tuss rod cover , Original P.U's with
surrounding rings , Bound fretboard , Bares a samll "3." on the
left of the neck joint
Has faded notes scribbled on the edge of the top wing (felt pen)

Known instrument is a 58
Brown Sunburst Fender Stratocaster, maple neck, 21 frets,serial #028228, probably the last of 3 or 4
Strats that Holly owned during his short career.All 5 tremelo springs installed.

white Gibson medium pick -
one was found inside the strat !

None live, used studio
echo.

Used a small Ampeg amp in
1957 but later used a tweed Fender Twin-Amp given to him by Fender.

two Marshall Jubilees, a ’65
Fender Dual Showman, and a ’68 Marshall plexi, all plugged into a pair of
4x12 cabinets

Standard, standard down a
half-step, open-E, open-G, and a pedal steel-derived tuning with two major
thirds.

Uli
Jon Roth

Sky Guitar - 7 string
instrument with extraordinary number of frets and extreme access.Some prototypes had as many as 42 frets
with the highest arranged in whole tone intervals.Pickup system is 'MegaWing' with the neck
pickup mounted below the fretboard !In earlier career with the Scorpions used a stock White Strat with
over-sized whammy bar to resist breakage .

Fender Strat Custom Shop -
set up with high action.Has 3
position switch rather than standard 5 position .Use stock pickups and lace sensors.Formerly had tremolo blocked but now uses
the tremolo with locking tuners.

heavy Ernie Ball set (.011,
.015, .016, .024, .034, .046).

Univibe, two Electric
Mistress boosters, a Mutron flanger and a couple of homemade boxes, Jennings
Cry Baby wah wah, a Tube Works booster and a plain vanilla Boss chorus pedal.

Marshall

Has used standard tuning,
drop-D and also tuned to e-flat or d during different periods.

Many special tunings, I
used a special tuning for that; the low string down to B, then A, D, G, A,
and D. It's like a modal tuning, a sitar tuning, in fact.
Open C (C-G-C-G-C-E) ("Friends," "That's the Way"),
B-A-D-G-A-D ("Black Mountain Side"), other tunings of Page's that
"are my own that I've worked out, so I'd rather keep those to
myself...but they're never open tunings."

Stevie
Ray Vaughn

59
Strat, with left handed tremelo, ultra tall frets, Tune to Eb,

VERY heavy gauge GHS
strings (0.013 to 0.060)

Fender Medium plectrums

High

Ibanez
Tube Screamers for overdrive, a Vox Crybaby for wah, a Fender Viratone, a
Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face, and a Tycobrahe Octavia

Eddie
Van Halen

Self made custom built,
using Strat Body & Gibson PAF pickups rewound to own spec. Known for
Charvel and EVH models -l

At this time EVH used
various strat style bodies, with generally maple strat necks, retrofitted
with Seymour Duncan or Gibson PAF humbuckers, as well as homemade pickups,
hand-rewound and wax potted. Tone control not wired in. Became known for use
of Charvel parts (initially without company support) - pickups directly
screwed to guitar body to increase sustain. Also became know for early
adoption of the Floyd Rose tremolo system.

Eddie
Van Halen - mid 80's

Commenced working with
Kramer , developing several instruments, essentially carrying the ideas
developed above forward - involved with Kramer from 84 - 90

Custom built Jackson Flying
V, The instruments have long, fairly small bodies that are easy to get
around. They have a neck-through-the-body solid maple construction, 22 frets,
a 25 1/2" scale, and Seymour Duncan pickups: a Jazz model in the neck position
and a Distortion. They have binding on the neck and around the head, and a
special pearl inlay that Randy came up with. The white one had one of
Charvel's standard tremolo units on it.Small frets.

Binson Echorec tape delay
(like Barrett, he used this device from his first days with the band), a
Dallas-Arbiter Fuzzface fuzz box, Uni-Vibe pedal, Vox wah-wah pedal, a
DeArmond volume pedal, and Leslie and Yamaha RA-200 rotating speaker
cabinets. The latter were routed through the output sections of Hiwatt heads
and then to WEM 4x12 cabinets. In 1972, his effects boxes were mounted in a
custom cabinet, and his array of processors grew to include a second Binson
Echorec and a second Fuzzface, an MXR Phase 90, a Crybaby wah-wah, an
Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress flanger, Big Muff fuzz, an Orange treble
and bass booster, and a custom-built tone pedal.

Peter
Green

His most famous Les Pauls
(right - now owned by Gary Moore) neck pickup had been wired so that the when
the selector switch is in the middle position the pickups are out of phase
(the neck pickup is also turned round so the pole pieces are towards the bridge
instead of the neck) For his current band - The Splinter Group - he
uses
• Gretsch Roc Jet
• Gibson Howard Roberts
• Fender Telecaster - with pizo pickup
• Fender Stratocaster

Using a classic late 50s
Les Paul with Bigsby, 56 Fender Tweed Deluxe and host of Boss Pedals from the
late 70s he has created the ultimate grunge sound 25 yrs before it was hip

Mick
Ronson

Mick
Ronson's trademark sound came from his sanded '68 Gibson Les Paul guitar
(later donated to the Hard Rock cafe in New York), a Marshall Major 200 watt
amp (nicknamed "The Pig") plus an angled 4x12" Marshall cab
and the use of a Cry-Baby wah-wah. Generally he set his amp's tone pots
to maximum and then set the pedal to act as a mid range boosting tone
control. However, he used it as a straight wah-wah on songs such as
"Moonage Daydream".

Argentine strings, a rather light, special
composition string - silver-plated copper over a steel core - made in France.
They are also often played with rather high action, for clearer notes and
better vibrato

Hank
Marvin

Possibly best known for 59
'pink' Stratocaster also used Burns Marvin signature guitar fora period in
the 1960's

Roy
Buchanan

53 Fender Telecaster

Flatpick plus 2 fingers

Johnny
Winter

Gibson Firebird, no
tremelo, non-standard tailpiece, large frets, high action

10-46 gauge GHS strings on
the cloud, symbol and Anastasia models and 11-50 gauge GHS strings on the
Hohner. He has them re-strung and covered in finger-ease before every
performance.

Prince

Fender Strat, with bridge
humbucker & Floyd Rose tremelo

Chuck
Berry

Chuck Berry has been a
Gibson man above all. An early favorite was the Les Paul Custom, with two
P-90 pickups. Berry alternated it with a hollow-body Super 400 with P-90s,
and an ES-150T, a thinline hollow-body guitar with two humbuckers. Later, he
switched to the ES-355, semi-hollow with two humbuckers. Latterly has also
used ES-335.

Scotty
Moore

Gibson ES-295,Gibson Super 400

Cliff
Gallup

Gretsch Duo Jet, with fixed Bigsby arm

Flat wound, heavy

Eddie
Cochrane

Gretsch G-brand
model 6120.

Muddy
Waters

After moving to Chicago,
Muddy first got a “no-name” electric hollowbody, but by the time he started
recording he owned a Gretsch with a DeArmond pickup. Later, Muddy could be
seen playing a Les Paul Gold Top with P-90 pickups and, finally, his
trademark instrument, the Cherry Red ’57 Telecaster, with oversized neck and
high bridge.

He tuned to standard pitch
for normal playing and to open G tuning for slide, and he used heavy strings
(.012 or .013 for the high E) and high action.

Muddy used a plastic thumb
pick to play the low E, and bare fingers to play the melody.

Fender Super Reverb with four
10-inch speakers.

Kurt
Cobain

65 Fender Jaguar
retrofitted with Tunomatic bridge, Dimarzio super distortion in bridge, PAF
neck pickups.Also a couple of Fender
Mustangs with Seymour Duncan JBs.Used
Strats live to avoid damage to these 3 guitars.Worked with Fender to create the Jag-Stang
; combines body type of Mustang & Jaguar, Fender Texas Special single
coil in the neck position and a DiMarzio H-3 humbucker in the bridge
position, short scale neck.

Heavy

Roland EF-1 distortion

Marc
Bolan

Most noted for a late 50's
Les Paul, refinisheded in a dark orange, later fitted with a new neck and
finally stolen in 1977.Also had 2
white rosewood neck strats.Also had
several 70s Les Pauls, A Gibson Flying V and a Zemaitis Les Paul, now owned
by Paul McCartney.

Used stamdard pitch but
often used capo

sometimes dispensed with a
pick and played with his first finger, using the nail as a substitute pick

Pair
of Fender Twins, in stereo. Though his UK models are vintage, 50 cycle Twins,
he picked up a pair of reissues stateside

Tampa
Red

1928 National Style 4

Jennifer
Batten

Washburn Maverick, Roland GK-2A guitar-synth pickups

10s

Albert
Collins

Blond 1966 Fender
Telecaster, with Gibson Humbucker in the neck position and stock tele single
coil in the bridge position

10's - uses E minor tuning,
E G E G B E and capo to change key

Fingerpicking

George
Benson

Used a Guild X-500
archtopin his early career , now
known for IbanezGeorge Benson series

Flatwound , very heavy,13,17,26,38,48,58

Medium Pick

Mike
Stern

Mike's guitar features a
custom made Tele-style body by Michael Aronson with an original '50s Fender
Broadcaster neck. Pickups are a Seymour Duncan P.A.F.-style humbucker in the
neck position and a Bill Lawrence single coil in the bridge.This guitar replaced an original '50s
Tele which originally belonged to bluesman Roy Buchanan and was sold to Mike
by the late Danny Gatton in 1975. It was stolen from Mike in an armed street
robbery in Roxbury, MA Yamaha Signature, Also -Gatton1965 Gibson Telecaster. It's a 1965 Gibson Melody Maker that was custom chopped by
Gatton with a Tele-treble pickup and a Danny Gatton homemade Charlie
Christian Rhythm pickup.1972 Gibson
Les Paul Recording."

Strings are .011-.038
nicklewounds.

Freddie
Green

In
the 1930's played Epiphone Emperor, but most famously associated with
Stromberg Master 400.When the
Stromberg went out of production and became too valuable for touring switched
to Gretsch Eldorado

Fender Stratocaster -
actually worked with Leo Fender on many aspects of Strat development.Plays extremely heavy strings, reverse
strung from high to low, in the same way as Albert King.Now has reverse headstock signature series
strat.

.018s, .038s, .048s, .039s,
.049s, .060s,

Tony
Iommi

Best known for Gibson 24
fret SG.Due to finger injury uses
ultra low frets, ultra light strings and often detunes.At one stage owned British guitar makers
John Diggins and John Birch.

.008's

Michael
Schenker

Number 1 - White and Black 1975 Flying V equipped with a Seymour
Duncan (probably a Jeff Beck) PU in the lead position.The original pickguard has been replaced
with a '67 reissue type , Neck joint has been reglued , No PU surroundings ,
Original Kluson tuners have been replaced by Schallers ,Bares a small
"1" on the left of the neck joint Number 2 -
Also a 1979 block inlay Flying V 1979 block inlayNumber 3 -Flying V
Original painte pickguard & tuss rod cover , Original P.U's with
surrounding rings , Bound fretboard , Bares a samll "3." on the
left of the neck joint
Has faded notes scribbled on the edge of the top wing (felt pen)

Known instrument is a 58
Brown Sunburst Fender Stratocaster, maple neck, 21 frets,serial #028228, probably the last of 3 or 4
Strats that Holly owned during his short career.All 5 tremelo springs installed.

white Gibson medium pick -
one was found inside the strat !

None live, used studio
echo.

Used a small Ampeg amp in
1957 but later used a tweed Fender Twin-Amp given to him by Fender.

two Marshall Jubilees, a ’65
Fender Dual Showman, and a ’68 Marshall plexi, all plugged into a pair of
4x12 cabinets

Standard, standard down a
half-step, open-E, open-G, and a pedal steel-derived tuning with two major
thirds.

Uli
Jon Roth

Sky Guitar - 7 string
instrument with extraordinary number of frets and extreme access.Some prototypes had as many as 42 frets
with the highest arranged in whole tone intervals.Pickup system is 'MegaWing' with the neck
pickup mounted below the fretboard !In earlier career with the Scorpions used a stock White Strat with
over-sized whammy bar to resist breakage .

Fender Strat Custom Shop -
set up with high action.Has 3
position switch rather than standard 5 position .Use stock pickups and lace sensors.Formerly had tremolo blocked but now uses
the tremolo with locking tuners.

heavy Ernie Ball set (.011,
.015, .016, .024, .034, .046).

Univibe, two Electric
Mistress boosters, a Mutron flanger and a couple of homemade boxes, Jennings
Cry Baby wah wah, a Tube Works booster and a plain vanilla Boss chorus pedal.

Marshall

Has used standard tuning,
drop-D and also tuned to e-flat or d during different periods.

George has a lot of really
interesting features on his guitarsHas 2 'Bones' guitars, both made by John Garcia,, with scalopped neck
above the 10'th fret.- has a long
relationship with ESP and many distinctive Tiger stripe models.Has recently started using baritone 27.5
inch scale and even some models with motorized moveable pickups.The very original Tiger stripe model was
actually a MIghty Mite strat and for a while George also used Charvel in the
80's.Extensively uses Seymour Duncan
pickups, Distortion and Screaming Demon models.Also has a number of 7 stringers , with
high 'A' instead of the more normal low B. One model has a maple 'stripe' to
distinguish the hihj A.ALso I note
that has a number of models with no tone control.

1952 Fender® Esquire®,
which is basically a single-pickup Telecaster®. , Bruce's stage secrets is
the application of household sealants over all the guitar's cavities
(including the gaps between the pickups and the body) to make it waterproof.
This is due to the fact that, during a performance, 'the Boss' contently
likes to dip his head in a full water butt